Sunday, May 31, 2009

More interaction options underneath the video player, including a more prominent link to the standard "watch" page

You can now feature a video by URL

Plenty of bug fixes (e.g. most people with buggy / broken layouts should now be fixed)

A few of the things we're looking at, based on your feedback:

Transparency options (this is a bit tricky to do, so no promises)

Ability to rate & comment on the video from the channel

Sort controls for uploads (especially most viewed)

Counts for the number of videos in each section

Letting you show the list of your playlists as your "Featured Content Set"

Order controls

Making URLs autolink

And, of course, lots of bug fixes thanks to your reports (including letting you go back to featuring your latest video once you've featured by URL, showing annotations in the featured video, and the "infinite circle" problem where videos don't load when you scroll down - thanks Chris, Patrick, muzik4machines, and others)

And, for partners that have asked - yes, ad support is coming soon too.

Bigger thumbnails & fonts on the right hand side - we're going to try this out, thanks to your feedback that the list of videos might have been just a little too small

Honors

Some more interactivity underneath the currently playing video - we've especially heard your feedback that you'd like comments to be better integrated

Other minor bug fixes

We've also added a few more channels to our list of "Our favorite new channel designs" - check them out on the right hand side of the blog.

Finally, we're happy to announce that we're getting closer to a full release to all users - and you can now opt-in to the channels beta by simply visiting the old Channel Design page. So, the question is: What's left that you absolutely-must-have-on-your-channel-or-else-you'll-totally-lose-it?! Let us know in the comments!